That is my intention yes. I confirmed the problem wasn't the disk itself, three disks from a set that had been working just fine all gave the same exact message.

EDIT: ok, now I feel like a real noob >.< I tried burning and it went fine. There was no actual file-system to mount on the blank disk and I'm not used to an auto-mounter giving that kind of message on a blank disk. I uh... am going to chalk this up to VL being my first slack-based distro.

But hey I may not be the only one to make that mistake, so hopefully others can find my thread before they start jumping through hoops like I did